no passages of Scripture even suggest (though I know you differ in at least Gen 2) the notion of God bestowing a soul to a “hominin.”
No passage of Scripture suggests that the earth rotates around the sun. Are you going to argue for
that notion, too?
The Greek word used in the passage you are referencing does not necessarily mean permanent death, but can be rendered to mean the appearance of perishing, to arise as something new
Actually, the Greek word used there (
ἀποθάνῃ) is constructed from two parts:
ἀπο, meaning “away from” and
θνῄσκω (thnḗskō), which really
does mean “die” (compare it to ‘thanos’, the Greek word for ‘death’).
It’s used quite commonly in the NT, and it carries the meaning “perish” or “die”. So, no… it’s not about an ‘appearance’. (As Christians, we would distinguish between physical death and eternal perishing, of course, but the force of the word here isn’t
appearance of death.)
What do you mean by this? Do you think this is some kind of “egg-chicken” situation?
No. I mean that the argument that “the Immaculate Conception ‘proves’ that Adam wasn’t a hominin who received a soul from God” makes a presumption that isn’t valid. It presumes that this happened at Adam’s conception, and that’s not a necessary feature of the argument for Adam’s hominin-cum-human creation.